Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-20
above and the other little below the center
OF the rosette. Death was instantaneous.
Fires and Casualties.

ABOVE and the other little below the center
OF the rosette. Death was instantaneous
Fires and Casualties.
Fire at Garden, q village in Big Bay de
Noque, Mich, on the 9th, destroyed the.
hotel and livery stable of Robert A. Nc
DOnald and Blk other buildings. a fortu-
nate change of wind saved the business
part OF the town. The horses were ali
saved. Loss, $1,000. No insurance.
a passenger train on the Georgia r. R
ran off bridge near Albany, Ca, Friday
night; - passengers were injured, but
Nine buildings caught fire, from burning
swamps, at Sandusky, Sanilac county,
Mich, on the 9th, and burned, including the
courthouse, hotels, stores, etc.
Hargadine, McKittrick & Co.'S, dry goods
house at st. Louis burned on the l1th; loss
$3.50, GOO insurance $4,000. Seven men were
buried under debris Of falling walls.
fire supposed to be of incendiary origin
destroyed q square at Pittsburg, Pa, Fri
day evening, bounded by 5th, Wood. Smith
heid streets and Virginia alley, the loss exe
ceedlng s., 0O0, 900. Upon this ground, about
Jhree-fOurthS OF an acre, were some Of the
more prominent buildings including Ma
sonic hall, the Dispatch building, wholesale
thought to be two-thirds of the loss.
The shoe factory at w olfboro, N. 81.
burned on the 10th, together with nine
dwellings The factory was the largest in
the state and had 500 employees. Loss Sl25,-
GOO, insurance light. IS
At Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 9th fire
caused losses of $50, 900 to e. M. Shot, hard
ware; $4,000 to Remington q johnson.
grocers, and 5000 to various small con-
Germs. Insurance ample.
Dyersburg, KY, small village on the
Cumberland river, suffered the loss of
eleven buildings by fire on the 18th, in the
principal part of the town, chiefly stores
Loss forty to fifty thousand dollars
The peanut warehouse of Bishop & Spear
and Kire's grocery, adjoining, burned on
the 10th, at st. Louis, Mo- Three firemen
were killed and two probably fatally in
$4,000. "ai's' no LOSS exceeds
Three lumber docks, with over 100000
feet of lumber we're burned, and five other
the Sth and 9th at Muskegon, Mich, the
total loss reaching 100000, with partial in
surance.
At Montreal, Quebec, on the 9th, the
Montreal Ware housing Company's build
i Ing e wa was damaged by fire to the extent of
thousand bushels of grain were also de.
stroyed, the loss on which is 100000; in
sured.
At Concord, N. H., a large warehouse
building took fra Tuesday evening. On
the third floor eight members of band
were practicing, and the stairway being on
fire they jumped to the ground, 80 feet, and
seven OF them sustained very serious
injuries.
BY the overturning of a working skip at
the Cleveland mine, at Ishpeming Mich,
Thursday, Edwin Cox and two other men.
names unknown, were killed. They fell
2OO feet, to the bottom of the shaft. Three
others were injured two OF them probably
fatally. -
On the 9th, a collision occurred at
Chattanooga between switch engine and a
passenger train of the East Tennessee
hallway. James Burgess, the passenger
engineer, and William Bradon, his fireman
were fatally injured while attempting to
leap from the train.
A bridge on the indianapolis & Evans
vile R. R., near Sabine City, gave way Fri
day forenoon throwing train down a
gully 10 feet. Six OF the passengers in the
car had quite serious injuries, one of which
may be fatal The bridge was q wooden
one over culvert, and worn out
The Giant Powder works, miles from
San francisco, California, exploded at 2 3.
m. Thursday. The force of the explosion
was such that windows along the battery
front in San Francisco were smashed and
buildings throughout the entire business
portion OF the city quivered to an extent
that it was believed the city had sustained
q heavy earthquake shock. There were four
shocks. Four men were killed and six
wounded.
At Albany, N. Y. John J. Reilly, aged %,
foreman in the scratch shop of Rathbun.
sard = Cos stove foundry, disappeared
an oven for baking ladies'. 1t was presumed
ne went in there, and laying down, went to
sleep. Fire was started Saturday and tho
door OF the oven was then locked. His
presence not being noticed, he was baked
for about 40 hours.
Fires on the 18th destroyed the Louisville,
KY, Spoke factory loss $4,000; three
stores at Washington, D. c., loss s25.
lumber yards at East Boston, Mass, loss
$50, 900: the Greenwood school house at
hyde Hark, Boston, Mass, loss Se2, GOO;
COO; at Pittsburg, Pa, by the upsettlng Of a
candle standing by the coffin of child
awaiting burial, the coffin took fire and
burned to ashes and the remains were re-
duced to cinders.
The yacht Dawn, hailing from Hammond,
Ind, was found capsized Sunday evening
OF Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago. En-
tangled IN the sails was the Ifeiess body of
man. The yacht and the kody were both
brought ashore, and communication with
Hammond established the fact that the
oeau man was Frank Evans, of the place
named He,. with Frank Brayam, whose
luther owned the yacht, and Thomas Col
inns, had gone for sail that afternoon.
Bryam and Collins are without doubt dead,
but their bodies have not yet been recov-
cred.
At Wilmington, Delaware, fire broke outin
places at the same moment in Ruth's house
furnishing factory and the establishment
was damaged SD, 600 by the successful in
cendarlsm In the drug store of Clinton.
Webb at Macon, Ill, a terrific explosion &C,
Cured causing the instant death of Nelson
Mcdaniel and the probable fatal injury of
Mr. Webb. The druggist was engaged in
mixture when the explosion
occurred. No one was present except Webb
and Mcdaniel, and it will be difficult to
learn what Webb was doing. He is unable
to speak. >~'-, ~'>s
Into the Jaws of Death.
All the railway horrors in the history of
this country were surpassed three-miles
east OF Chatsworth, Ills, Thursday morn
ing, when an excursion train on the Toledo,
Feorla q Western road dropped through a
burning bridge and over one hundred peo-
pie were killed, and four times that number
more or less badly injured. The train was